We experienced a recent power outage which caused the RAID array hosting mirror data to need to be rebuilt. As a result, the mirrored data is temporarily read-only. We hope to resume synchronizing as soon as possible. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you.

Reconstruction of the RAID has completed 77%

no reply yet to my mail

its entirely possible that a spot of social engineering could be useful

like emails in support of aptosid mirror, say from students or staff at u waterloo ...